For the exhibition Sagalassos, City Of Dreams, staged at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Belgium, Amptec was asked to provide a 270° film screen surrounding a 3D scale model of the ancient Turkish city of Sagalassos....
“As we have found with every new loudspeaker that comes from d&b audiotechnik, the new V-Series does exactly what it says it will in the brochure.” Dick Hayes, Director of Entec’s audio department speaking after another...
Put the words Germany and opera into one sentence and most minds will drift inevitably to Bayreuth and the magnificent grandeur of Wagner. Yet Germany’s contribution to European opera suffuses the nation.
The Oper Frankfurt... 
The Helsinki Music Centre (HMC) is a typically stylish and striking piece of Finnish architecture. A combination of concert performance venue and educational hub for all forms of music, the HMC embeds the ethos of developing...
Listed as one of the finest restaurants in Spain, the Maher Hotel in Cintruénigo on the banks of the Ebro just one hour south of Pamplona, is renowned for its ability to mix unlikely ingredients and conspire to make them...
Amongst the many plaudits and awards garnered by the play War Horse, based on Michael Morpurgo’s book, is an underlying recognition that this is no ordinary production. Collaborative in the extreme, the performance is successful...
Take the widely coveted consistent mids and vocal presence of the d&b audiotechnik J-Series, then combine them with the proven qualities of a Q-Series and the result is the V-Series: a mid-sized line array suitable for any sound...
There are some people who painstakingly pick out their targets and visit touring productions solely to experience hi-fi sound at concert levels; not many, but a few. For Gary Bradshaw mixing ‘house sound’ on George Michael’s ...
According to Mr. Berkant Kuru, owner of Spectrum Show Technologies and Production Services, Lütfi Kirdar is the foremost conference centre in Istanbul, “in fact in all of Turkey”, he said. For those who imagine the cultural...
Small by name, but massively ambitious in the breadth of its productions, the Piccolo Theatre in Milan has recently completed what is the first stage in a major audio upgrade. When Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi founded the...
Just over one hundred and fifty years ago Brampton was first recognised as a village with a population of five hundred souls. Today it is home to around five hundred thousand people making it one of Canada’s largest cities....
A very conventional TV theatre at the home of Singapore’s leading broadcaster MediaCorp, was looking for a slightly unconventional sound system. “MediaCorp’s audio team headed by Mr Sherman Lee (Senior Manager, Sound), stated...
Contrary to popular belief in the West, when Russian officialdom decides something needs to be done it can and will, pull it off with alacrity and precision. “The important factor is to analyse exactly what is required, identify...
It is facile to imagine all life’s difficult questions can be distilled down to a simple choice between black and white. Much as we’d like the easy answer, time and consideration point to a more reasoned response. St Paul’s...
Situated in the southern suburbs of this prosperous West African sea port, midway between the city’s main railway station and its home team football stadium, the Cathedral of Benguela, Angola, Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora de...
Laying between Gdańsk to the south and Gdynia in the north lays the lesser known resort city of Sopot on the Baltic coast. Here the new Ergo Arena and Entertainment Hall (EAEH) has taken the seemingly perfected sports arena...
It all makes perfect sense, conduct an experiment for the Noise Abatement society and what’s the first thing you do? Rent in a PA system of course. It does make sense in one way, how else can you investigate the suppression of...
